Re: why doesn't Y-offset work for Hairpins?

[Mats Bengtsson]

The explanation may be something similar as the explanation in the 
section on "Text Markup" on why \left-align doesn't have any effect
for RehearsalMark objects.

  /Mats

Quoting Marcus Macauley <address@hidden>:

> The documentation page for Hairpin --
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Hairpin.html
> -- lists Y-offset as one of the standard settings. It also says that  
> Hairpin supports grob-interface, and the grob-interface page --
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/grob_002dinterface.html
> -- also lists Y-offset as one of the "User settable properties".
>
> So I would assume that putting
>
>         \once \override Score.Hairpin #'Y-offset = #6
>
> before a hairpin object would shift it up or down, in this case by 6 
> staff  spaces.
>
> But in fact, the following example moves the hairpin not at all:
>
>         \version "2.9.17"
>         \layout { ragged-right = ##t }
>         {
>                 \once \override Score.Hairpin #'Y-offset = #6
>                 \relative c' {c1\> c1\!}
>         }
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
>
> BTW, X-offset works just fine. And extra-offset works too, but I 
> don't  think that's what I want (because it doesn't create any extra 
> space).
>
> Marcus
>
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